Homesteading

Homesteading:Not every part of survival training is about avoiding nuclear fallout or protecting your compound from roving gangs of mutants. In fact, the majority of daily life will be consumed by mundane tasks such as the acquiring, growing, and preserving of food. In many ways our lifestyle will revert to that of America at its most idyllic: the mid-nineteenth-century plantation. In some respects, cats are poorly suited to such agrarian work; they produce little milk and are notoriously difficult to yoke with a plow. However, they compensate for these deficiencies by being one of nature’s most gifted hunters. Whether they are pouncing on a mouse or bringing down an eight-point buck with a crossbow, few animals match the apex predatory skill of the American house cat. Your feline friend will likely play a crucial role in keeping your family’s larder well stocked with the food they’ll need to survive the lean winter months. If you encourage your cat to chase mice, hunt birds, and take them to laser tag or paintball ranges, you’ll keep their hunting instincts as sharp as their claws!
Finally, don’t limit yourself to these four topics! The more you teach, the more prepared your cat will be! There is no end to the number of potentially lifesaving skills your cat can learn, from operating a ham radio to weaving rope. Even something as ordinary as learning how to swim across a river, stream, or other body of moving water could prove invaluable if your cat were being chased by vampires. Never stop preparing, because after doomsday this wisdom will be your cat’s best purrtection!
What equipment will my cat need to survive?
One of the most important things you can do for your cat is assemble an EDC kit—or Every Day Carry kit—that your cat will keep with them at all times. You may have a bomb shelter stocked with five years’ worth of cat food and the most durable scratching posts money can buy, but this won’t do your kitty a lick of good if they’re wandering the neighborhood when the bombs fall and don’t have the necessary resources to get back home. Well stocked with a versatile array of supplies, a good EDC kit will allow your cat to purrservere in any situation you could pawsibly imagine! Here are a few tips for assembling an EDC kit for your cat: